Certaine serious thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry occasions have stollen themselves into verse and now into the publike view from the author [Wyvill coat of arms] Esquire ; together w[i]th a chronologicall table denoeting [sic] the names of such princes as ruled the neighbor states and were con-temporary to our English kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned.

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Certaine serious thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry occasions have stollen themselves into verse and now into the publike view from the author [Wyvill coat of arms] Esquire ; together w[i]th a chronologicall table denoeting [sic] the names of such princes as ruled the neighbor states and were con-temporary to our English kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned.
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Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711.
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London :: Printed by F.B. for George Badger and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1647.
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English poetry.
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Chronology.
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"Certaine serious thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry occasions have stollen themselves into verse and now into the publike view from the author [Wyvill coat of arms] Esquire ; together w[i]th a chronologicall table denoeting [sic] the names of such princes as ruled the neighbor states and were con-temporary to our English kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67233.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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On GODS UBI QVITARY PRESENCE.

NO gloomy shades, nor darkned face of night Can shrow'd a sinner, from the quick-ey'd sight Of all-discerning Heaven: God doth rule Beyond the controverted coasts of Thule. And his unbounded justice doth controle, The frozen vertices of either Pole. All inter-fluent seas, all Regions stand Subjected to the power of his command. Then let not fancy'd secrecy invite Thy deeds of darknesse to out-black the night, Nor though some forraine Clime thou wandrest in, Where no know'n face can argue thee of sin, Dare to let-loose thy rebell-soule, but know There is a God above, see's all below: Who shall hereafter be thy judge, and then Thy bare-fac'd crimes, unmask't before all men,

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And Angells must appeare, nay more, the Devills Will aggravate, that prompted to, those evills.
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